Giant Bomb EVE Corp and Community - New duders welcome!

Kite Co. Space Trucking: Join Today!

A lonely breed... hard men, proud men... not too proud to cry or shed a tear. The living embodiment of the Space-American space-cowboy tradition. This Corp was founded to honor this great native Space-American son who gave his life for a cause so vital to us all, like so many great Space-Americans before him had. Us space-truckers, will forever be paying our respects to our lost comrade, the Enemy Kite, in our Space-Macks, our Space-Jimmies, K-Whoppers, Fruitliners, space garbage trucks, space dump trucks and even space limousines... Space Truckers all! From the covered space wagons and space trains to the space 18-wheelers that keep this space country alive... This controlled individualism made this cause so vital that I promise to take it to Space Washington and present it to the Space Senate myself.

- The Space Trucker Prophecies

EVE is hard. You may have heard of it before and you may have even tried it before. Was your interest piqued by the Bombcast or Patrick Dan Ryckert casually mentioning it? Are you ready to dive into space and find out what lies in the unknown?

You're in luck.

An intrepid new player has taken it upon himself to organize all the newduders in the Giantbomb community. The brand new "Kite Co. Space Trucking" corporation is open to all new Giantbomb duders! Apply in game today! Our in game channel has also been updated to "giantbombing" so hurry and join!

For any Giantbomb duders playing EVE (we do not recruit DUST players), we have a couple of people that hang out in the "giantbombing" channel. Players new and old are welcome and we'd love to help out new players. If you want a cool place to hang out while exploring the galaxy come check it out! I'm Tomiko Kawase in game, so stop by and say, "hi."

I wrote it as Giantbomb since that's the name of the channel in game and I didn't want to confuse anyone. Channels are considered player property so any other spelling would be someone else's (though I'm not sure who owns "giantbomb").

If anyone's finding the game too tough, we'd love to help out new guys. There are people that frequent all aspects of the game that hang out here!

I really wish I had the time and money to dump into EVE. I really do. I tried a 14-day trial years ago, and it seemed really cool. Nice to see that someone from our community can help those who do play it.

They have an extended trial that gives you 7 extra days on top of the 14-day trial. The link will give me a 30-day subscription item if you end up liking the game and subscribing. I'd be glad to give anyone 50% of the proceeds (~250m ISK, starter ships cost ~2-5mil), which should get you off the ground.

Edit: The price of the particular item I receive from your trial can fluctuate with the market. The price I have listed here is current as of this edit, but can be higher or lower depending on the market.

Awesome! I didn't realize you were a moderator. My advice is to finish the tutorials before anything else. After that you should look into picking a corporation to join. A lot of people quit EVE early on because they don't find a good corporation to join.

@VisariLoyalist I think I am just doing it wrong and having a hard time wiping out pirates; I'll figure out eventually :)

yeah, it's just that missions are pretty awesome isk wise anyway if you get a battleship that can blitz level 4 security missions. Like an easy 25 mill an hour, which is great income for a newer player.

So much terrible advice in this thread, seems like half the people posting advice have never left hisec. Don't train for a raven, its a useless boat. You will never use it in PVP and its bad in PVE too. Don't join EVE University, the idea is good but they are terrible at the game and have too many rules for people to actually play and do their own thing.

Like KingGiddra said, join a real corporation as soon as possible. Preferably one in a "0.0 Alliance". Test Alliance Please Ignore, Goonswarm Federation, Nexus Fleet are all very new player friendly alliances. They will teach you the game, give you free ships for use in combat and allow you to feel useful from day 1, be it a roam of 10 people or a fleet of 500. You will also learn about critical things outside of eve like Jabber, Mumble/Teamspeak 3, if you are not already familiar with them. Of course there are dozens and dozens of other new player friendly alliances in the game but those are the first that came to mind. The best bet honestly is a group of a community you are part of (Reddit) or nationality (Fistful of Finns for example, are all finnish). They usually are always looking for more people and its easier to get in.

In my opinion it is critical to get a new player out of hisec as soon as possible, so he knows whats out there. I almost quit the game because I thought mission running is the only thing to do in the game.

heh i joined eve uni , it was ok , kept me interested longer than i would have , but as you said you need to experience lowsec/nullsec before "getting bored" heh .. i just never had the time to do anything.. and i had been stubborn and picked amaar an never decided on flying any one ship and just kept training up to the next ship and its required skills.

ONE DAY id like to get back into it , mabye just to kill boredom while waiting for star citizen ehe .. also yeah id like to have more fun than eve uni eheh , things like security lockdowns and the rules on even flying your own ship of chocie sucked but then again i never got attacked/podded when i followed their rules , then again the lowest sec i was in was 0.4 ooooooooh

@VisariLoyalist: problem for me was i just bought and sold some plex to get a nice starting nestegg and basicly spoiled the early game and any sense of reward for me eheh .. but in hindsight i know it was my fault eheh not the games

@VisariLoyalist: problem for me was i just bought and sold some plex to get a nice starting nestegg and basicly spoiled the early game and any sense of reward for me eheh .. but in hindsight i know it was my fault eheh not the games

IMO there is nothing rewarding about making ISK (unless we are talking real money, tens of billions) to pay for a new players skills, ships etc

The early experience in eve should be about making contacts and learning the game, not shooting NPCs.

EDIT: when I say "learning the game" I mean learning to fly ships in combat, dscan, basic PVP tactics etc not skilling up your character but the actual players skills.

It paints a pretty bad picture of a lot of corps in EVE and for good reason. If you're not getting help from your corp don't hesitate to leave and look for greener pastures. Also if you guys are having trouble with stuff you can always drop a line in the GB chat. There are a few veterans that frequent the channel willing to help.

From the comments:

The number 1 thing CCP could do at this point is to murder the fuck out of the Rookie Help channel (which is home to some of the worst shitty answers I've seen in my entire life) and start anew. A moderated channel with people that have /proper/ experience in the game answering the questions instead of the kind of self-fulfilling idiocy that comes out of Rookie Help at the moment.

I spent about an hour in there last week after starting a new account for a cyno guy, and saw the typical "null/lowsec is BAD they will KILL you", terminology issues, bad recommendations, fitting advice that'd be more likely to kill you than save you, etc., etc.

@VisariLoyalist: problem for me was i just bought and sold some plex to get a nice starting nestegg and basicly spoiled the early game and any sense of reward for me eheh .. but in hindsight i know it was my fault eheh not the games

that's an odd problem because to be honest I won a player run lottery early on and won 1.2 billion isk and it did nothing but make my experience more rewarding. With a good nest egg like that you can do some pvp and not care about how many cheap ships you burn doing it.

@Nentisys: I thought that alliances in 0.0 wouldn't be interested in noobs because 0.0 requires strong human skills and human skills require time. I guess I am wrong, thanks a lot for the info!

Yeah. But the thing is (that many new players don't realize) that you will never learn those skills just running missions in empire.

One good option is Red vs Blue (http://rvbeve.com/forums/) for learning basic pvp. RvB is two corps (red federation / blue federation) that have war decced each other in empire and fight 24/7 in cheap ships. The problem with RvB is that its 99% frigate sized stuff and compared to 0.0 alliances you get zero benefits. 0.0 alliances give you free ships (or reimburse your lost ships), places to rat/mine and a large variety of operations.

EDIT: I want to add that part of the reason many 0.0 alliances are newbie friendly is that in the current 0.0 metagame numbers are king.

@Syndrom said:

is the channel still up? i might pop in. I'm a euro duder though.

I'm EU TZ too, it won't be completely empty. Haven't been logging in much though, holidays and all.

Just wanted to say hi here on the forums. I have been in the GB channel the last few weeks since I started playing the game, with the name Viggo Habalu. Nice people in that channel, would definitely like more to chat too!

Just wanted to say hi here on the forums. I have been in the GB channel the last few weeks since I started playing the game, with the name Viggo Habalu. Nice people in that channel, would definitely like more to chat too!

Awesome! Hopefully some of the 'old guard' of the channel come back soon. We used to have a couple people frequent it, but they kinda died.

Playing for free isn't necessarily easy to do at first, but given some experience it's quite feasible. The key point is that there are so many ways to make money in EVE. If you enjoy trading for instance, playing for free can be accomplished with relative ease. If you focus on running missions, dedicating a significant amount of time can also get you there. Keep in mind that "free" isn't taking into account the time you invest into the game.

Mining isn't generally a high paying job save for a few specialized instances. Most people do it for a "therapeutic" social activity in a group. If you're dead set on mining, your best bet is probably going for ABC ore. I'm not a mining expert, though.

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I found quite the interesting article on scoutingfor fleets in EVE. I really feel like this article does a great job expressing the intricacies of the EVE metagame in a purely combat sense. Scouting is generally a very thankless job that when done right can lead to substantial victories as well as surprise kills. The article does get somewhat technical and at times deals with high level concepts in EVE. Despite this, I think it's a great article for a new player looking towards what EVE can provide.

OK I was going to wait a couple of weeks to jump into EVE (want to finish the First Witcher first) but I've decided that I may as well re-up my sub now and at least mine and learn skills whilst I'm on The Witcher, utilise my time well, you know? I will certainly join the Giantbomb channel, is there a GB Corp that can be joined?

OK I was going to wait a couple of weeks to jump into EVE (want to finish the First Witcher first) but I've decided that I may as well re-up my sub now and at least mine and learn skills whilst I'm on The Witcher, utilise my time well, you know? I will certainly join the Giantbomb channel, is there a GB Corp that can be joined?

Thanks very much.

Corporations pose a significant time and resource investment in EVE. Even the small ones require content generation or you'll lose your members fast to boredom or canceled subscriptions. Since many of the people here already have some obligations to their own corporations I chose to promote our Giantbomb channel rather than make a brand new corporation. You'll get most of the benefits out of a corporation through our channel, so it's a win-win for everybody. We'll help as much as we can to find you a decent corporation while you get your bearings.

@kinggiddra: So... the part he left out is if you sub he gets an item worth about 1/2 billion isk.

I mentioned that very clearly in this thread. The original post didn't include that link. I only added it after a week and we saw a bunch of people actually joining the channel after it was just a couple of us for a year.